Below are several responses that we thought summed up the Week 3 chat well, covered themes, or contained thought-provoking questions or comments.

Feel free to chime in with your thoughts in the comments section of this post or on Twitter (clicking the date at the bottom of each tweet will take you directly to that tweet on Twitter’s website). You can see the full conversation by searching “#AgBookClub” on Twitter.

Q1: What’s one thing that’s jumped out at you in this book so far? Likes or dislikes?

Q3: Many of the key players in this book are men. How were women contributing to the advancements in ag in this time?

A3: The success of one individual is always a team effort. It takes sacrifice from the family and others. It just happened that the traditional role back then was that the male was the breadwinner (but it sounded like Borlaug’s wife was a teacher for a time). #AgBookClub

Q4: Do you have someone playing a Margaret-sized role in your career? Would you make big sacrifices to support someone’s passions like she did?

A4: I’d like to dedicate this section to my parents, for supporting me through college, and also to my cats, for dealing with me day in and day out & listening to my problems without interrupting & for sometimes spending a night or two alone while I’m away for work. #AgBookClub

Join us for Week 4 of our March read, The Man Who Fed the World, on Wednesday, March 28th. We’ll be discussing pages 170 – the end (chapters 14 – epilogue). See the reading schedule here. If you’re never participated in AgBookClub before, please jump right in! We’d love to have you join us!